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EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬



The Lord Bude posted:

Also Northern European, Eastern European, Southern European, Asian (Japan and china at least, russia if you want to count russia as asia rather than Eastern Europe), South america, Australia - basically any country that isn't the United states, or predominantly Muslim.

Think again - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/01/simpsons-powerpuff-girls-porn-nets-jail-time-for-australian/

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Two quick Qs

1. Twitter integration has been great, but seems to have stopped working for me today. Anyone else?

2. Anyone know a way of logging in to YouTube while in the app? I use Watch Later a lot, and I've been logged out so I can't do this without clicking the video and adding it to WL while in the YT app. Just be nicer to take out a step.

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carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

EL BROMANCE posted:

2. Anyone know a way of logging in to YouTube while in the app? I use Watch Later a lot, and I've been logged out so I can't do this without clicking the video and adding it to WL while in the YT app. Just be nicer to take out a step.

You'll probably have to uninstall YouTube, since if it's installed I can't figure out a way to get to the YouTube mobile site, it always wants to use the app or do nothing.

stuffed crust punk
Oct 8, 2004

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

carry on then posted:

You'll probably have to uninstall YouTube, since if it's installed I can't figure out a way to get to the YouTube mobile site, it always wants to use the app or do nothing.

This is a failure of safariview/native links I think

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬



Ah shame, I'll just deal with it.

The Lord Bude
May 23, 2007

ASK ME ABOUT MY SHITTY, BOUGIE INTERIOR DECORATING ADVICE

EL BROMANCE posted:

Think again - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/01/simpsons-powerpuff-girls-porn-nets-jail-time-for-australian/

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Two quick Qs

1. Twitter integration has been great, but seems to have stopped working for me today. Anyone else?

2. Anyone know a way of logging in to YouTube while in the app? I use Watch Later a lot, and I've been logged out so I can't do this without clicking the video and adding it to WL while in the YT app. Just be nicer to take out a step.

Having laws against Child pornography is not the same thing as a cultural aversion to nudity and sexuality in cinema, which in the US results in even minor depictions of such having R rating slapped on them. I'm pretty sure the entire world agrees that kiddy porn is bad (except maybe Japan).

Cactus Ghost
Dec 20, 2003

you can actually inflate your scrote pretty safely with sterile saline, syringes, needles, and aseptic technique. its a niche kink iirc

the saline just slowly gets absorbed into your blood but in the meantime you got a big round smooth distended nutsack

Subjunctive posted:

What do you mean?

Edit(!): oh, that on others' posts quote is in position 3, but on your own that spot is edit? I think it reduces q!=e, but I haven't thought much about it.

i guess i should be more articulate and less snotty

Sometimes when trying to quote your own post, hitting the quote button does not open a new post, but edits the one you're trying to quote. It usually isn't immediately obvious because the quote appears as it should, you're just editing your most recent post with it instead of creating a new one.

IIRC in the past there has been a similar issue where hitting the new post button will edit your most recent post.

drunken officeparty
Aug 23, 2006

Is it just me or do the thread tag images not work for some of them. They look like placeholder ones.

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

OMGVBFLOL posted:

i guess i should be more articulate and less snotty

Sometimes when trying to quote your own post, hitting the quote button does not open a new post, but edits the one you're trying to quote. It usually isn't immediately obvious because the quote appears as it should, you're just editing your most recent post with it instead of creating a new one.

IIRC in the past there has been a similar issue where hitting the new post button will edit your most recent post.

I've seen the latter with canceled posts, I think, but never the former. Wonder what's going on there.

Diabolik900
Mar 28, 2007

drunken officeparty posted:

Is it just me or do the thread tag images not work for some of them. They look like placeholder ones.

It's not just you. Someone (pretty much always me or The Dave) needs to create a square version of each tag in order for it to show up in the app. It will just show up as a placeholder until we do.

Fedule
Mar 27, 2010


No one left uncured.
I got you.
On which note can we have app versions of the new Games tags? Some of them might be "fun" to render statically though.

Diabolik900
Mar 28, 2007

I'll make non-binding, semi-promise to work on them this week.

And yes, figuring out how to represent the tags statically is often the "fun" part.

asecondduck
Feb 18, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo
What are the chances of implementing keyboard shortcuts for us iPad Smart/Bluetooth Keyboard users? I'm thinking:

Whoops, someone requested this on the previous page! I'll leave my suggestions up though:

*Up/Down (and j/k) to scroll through a thread
*Cmd+N to create a new reply
*Cmd+Enter to Preview/Reply
*Cmd+M to add/remove bookmark
*Cmd+B to open bookmarks
*Cmd+I to open main index
*Cmd+{/} to advance pages
*Cmd 1-5 to vote

The next few may not be doable but would also be sweet to have:
*Cmd+L to mark Last read
*Cmd+E to edit
*Cmd+Q to quote

Thanks!

asecondduck fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Apr 20, 2016

megane
Jun 20, 2008



Diabolik900 posted:

I'll make non-binding, semi-promise to work on them this week.

And yes, figuring out how to represent the tags statically is often the "fun" part.

I made a handful of them! Probably the easiest ones but :effort:

baram.
Oct 23, 2007

smooth.


I just tried opening the videogame deals thread and got this error:


which I don't think I've ever seen. it has a new thread icon which hasn't been brought to the app yet which may have confused it? probably not but it did open fine when I tried a second time.

I'm on build 31203 from TestFlight, iPhone 5s.

Diabolik900
Mar 28, 2007

megane posted:

I made a handful of them! Probably the easiest ones but :effort:



Thanks! I made a few on Monday night, and thankfully there's no overlap in our efforts.

Pokeyman - it seems like something went wrong with the Github pages setup for the app. I pushed out the new tags on Monday that I mentioned above, and got an email from Github that I'm assuming you got too (maybe a bad assumption) about a page build failure, and the new tags haven't downloaded.

stuffed crust punk
Oct 8, 2004

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

baram. posted:

I just tried opening the videogame deals thread and got this error:


which I don't think I've ever seen. it has a new thread icon which hasn't been brought to the app yet which may have confused it? probably not but it did open fine when I tried a second time.

I'm on build 31203 from TestFlight, iPhone 5s.

Fix this but keep it enabled for that dumbass that posts indiegala anime games every day

Boris Galerkin
Dec 17, 2011

I don't understand why I can't harass people online. Seriously, somebody please explain why I shouldn't be allowed to stalk others on social media!
Is there a way to unmark a thread as read in the app? Can't find a way to do it. By that I mean like clicking on the little "x" button on the website.

Stare-Out
Mar 11, 2010

Boris Galerkin posted:

Is there a way to unmark a thread as read in the app? Can't find a way to do it. By that I mean like clicking on the little "x" button on the website.
Press down on the specific thread and it'll pop up a list of options, it'll be there.

Boris Galerkin
Dec 17, 2011

I don't understand why I can't harass people online. Seriously, somebody please explain why I shouldn't be allowed to stalk others on social media!

Stare-Out posted:

Press down on the specific thread and it'll pop up a list of options, it'll be there.

Oh there we go. I tried that at first but I pressed down too hard and triggered the 3D Touch I guess.

stuffed crust punk
Oct 8, 2004

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
Feature request - could the "pull for next page" become a toggle under the settings screen? I find myself accidentally triggering it a lot and having to go back a page. Pair this with asynchronously loading tweets changing the total content height of the scrollview and scrolling down the the last two posts I missed on the previous page gets chaotic.

Additional feature request - any chance there could be a "cache x pages" feature? I ride the subway to work and I'll next-page up a few before going underground and I see the app does somehow persist loaded pages. It'd be handy to be able to quickly download a few pages for offline viewing.

As always, thanks for the app!

stuffed crust punk
Oct 8, 2004

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Regular Nintendo posted:

Feature request - could the "pull for next page" become a toggle under the settings screen? I find myself accidentally triggering it a lot and having to go back a page. Pair this with asynchronously loading tweets changing the total content height of the scrollview and scrolling down the the last two posts I missed on the previous page gets chaotic.

On second thought I'm gonna try to add this myself. I may have to ask about how to do a pull req on github.

The Dave
Sep 9, 2003

I think my big question would be, does there need to be an extra toggle, or does the sensitivity need to be perfected?

Lord knows I am too much of a kitchen-sink designer, but I try to precede with caution when the solution is "Add another setting".

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill
Perhaps you could add a setting to choose whether these things are controlled by settings or not

Mad Wack
Mar 27, 2008

"The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"
make it a voice command or provide an ifttt outlet so i can say "alexa, refresh awful"

stuffed crust punk
Oct 8, 2004

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
Ok, looks like I added it and it seems to be persisting between executions, I just followed the same pattern as the other thread-level settings

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

The Dave posted:

I think my big question would be, does there need to be an extra toggle, or does the sensitivity need to be perfected?

I think the latter. The pull should be from a state at the end of the scroll, not continuing from a scroll. Maybe a minimum quiescent time to keep it from being part of a series of flicks?

withak
Jan 15, 2003


Fun Shoe
Add an option to revert all behavior to any previous version of the app. There can be a dropdown menu or something to select which version's behavior you want.

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

withak posted:

Add an option to revert all behavior to any previous version of the app. There can be a dropdown menu or something to select which version's behavior you want.

https://github.com/Awful/Awful.app/tags

Knock yourself out.

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill

Subjunctive posted:

I think the latter. The pull should be from a state at the end of the scroll, not continuing from a scroll. Maybe a minimum quiescent time to keep it from being part of a series of flicks?

This is a good idea, do this one please

ziasquinn
Jan 1, 2006

Fallen Rib
A minor dumb thing and maybe deliberate:

If you're making a thread and choose a thread tag (say, "request"), then if you open the list of tags again thinking you'll want to change it to something else and hit cancel, it removes the first selection and leaves you with the poo poo post tag. I'd think canceling it would retain the original selection since you're canceling the dialog and not intentionally clearing it

God. I hope this makes sense

Grace Baiting
Jul 20, 2012

Audi famam illius;
Cucurrit quaeque
Tetigit destruens.



Make "pull for next page" be a setting, but make the toggle be located only below the bottom of each page so you have to swipe the thread up enough to reveal the toggle switch and then hold it there while you use another finger to toggle the toggle. This becomes easier when the toggle is off because then releasing prematurely will not load the next page (thus turning this toggle off qualifies as an advanced Awful app technique™.)

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Diabolik900
Mar 28, 2007

Abjad Soup posted:

Make "pull for next page" be a setting, but make the toggle be located only below the bottom of each page so you have to swipe the thread up enough to reveal the toggle switch and then hold it there while you use another finger to toggle the toggle. This becomes easier when the toggle is off because then releasing prematurely will not load the next page (thus turning this toggle off qualifies as an advanced Awful app technique™.)

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spanky the dolphin
Sep 3, 2006

Caching 5 pages or something for subway or airplane use would be awesome.

Also, I changed the icons for add bookmark and unmark a while back. We should slip them into the next update :

link

Diabolik900
Mar 28, 2007

Diabolik900 posted:

Pokeyman - it seems like something went wrong with the Github pages setup for the app. I pushed out the new tags on Monday that I mentioned above, and got an email from Github that I'm assuming you got too (maybe a bad assumption) about a page build failure, and the new tags haven't downloaded.

Ok, whatever happened here must've just been a fluke thing, because I just did it again without issues.

megane posted:

I made a handful of them! Probably the easiest ones but :effort:



You should see these, and a few more that I made, pop up in the app today or tomorrow (the app looks for new tags only once a day I believe). Still missing some, but much fewer than before.

ziasquinn
Jan 1, 2006

Fallen Rib

Abjad Soup posted:

Make "pull for next page" be a setting, but make the toggle be located only below the bottom of each page so you have to swipe the thread up enough to reveal the toggle switch and then hold it there while you use another finger to toggle the toggle. This becomes easier when the toggle is off because then releasing prematurely will not load the next page (thus turning this toggle off qualifies as an advanced Awful app technique™.)

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This would be nice, especially for image heavy pages where you're trying to back track and scrolling too quickly as images load almost always pushes me to the next page :whitewater: or something so you always bounce off the bottom the first time you hit it and only advances the page with another swipe. Unless that would come off glitchy, I think

Cacheing small amounts of pages would be cool too if it wouldn't be too demanding

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

Your Dead Gay Son posted:

This would be nice, especially for image heavy pages where you're trying to back track and scrolling too quickly as images load almost always pushes me to the next page :whitewater:

Cacheing small amounts of pages would be cool too if it wouldn't be too demanding

The app does cache posts for a (long) while. What are you not seeing cached that you would like to be?

stuffed crust punk
Oct 8, 2004

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
Speaking for myself, I think the idea is a control that would let you cache up x pages instead of manually incrementing them beforehand

pokeyman
Nov 26, 2006

That elephant ate my entire platoon.

life is a joke posted:

You prob already got this one, but if I scroll to the end of a thread with no new replies I get error code 999 instead of just refreshing to the bottom.

Don't think I do have that one actually. I'll add it to the list.

Abjad Soup posted:

Hah I was using the image viewer sheet and I guess it renders a white rectangle behind animated gifs or something, ignore that part then

That is indeed what the image viewer does.

Subjunctive posted:

Did we change the default on that? I keep meaning to.

Just did.

Soricidus posted:

If I tap the link in the post below, it opens fine in awful browser. If I long-tap and open in safari, I get a 404. Something messing up the url escaping I guess?

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3548182&perpage=40&pagenumber=760#post458545691

I knew there was a link I'd opened somewhere in Awful recently that had hosed up URL escaping but I forgot which one. That was it! Thanks! I'll take a look.

Abjad Soup posted:

Add another to the initial tweembedding bugs pile: long-pressing a tweet and then choosing the "Copy URL" button seems to do nothing but place "https://forums.somethingawful.com" into your clipboard, regardless of the tweet, which I don't think is the correct behavior. Same result when long-pressing on a link within the embedded tweet.

That is… not at all helpful! Will take a look.

Sereri posted:

I guess you'll be fine if you guys don't start with the emoji sex again. :gooncamp:

Here's the list if anyone's curious.

OMGVBFLOL posted:

so is the app ever going to stop mixing up quote and edit, or is it supposed to be some meta joke about q!=e

It's a bad setup and I want to fix it. What's going on is if you start an edit and then cancel it, as long as you stay in that same thread tapping the compose button will reopen your edit. And if you press "quote" while you have a draft, it'll append the quote to the draft instead of making a new reply. Even if you delete everything in the text box. Best I can offer for now is if you visit another thread then come back, your draft edit will be gone.

EL BROMANCE posted:

2. Anyone know a way of logging in to YouTube while in the app? I use Watch Later a lot, and I've been logged out so I can't do this without clicking the video and adding it to WL while in the YT app. Just be nicer to take out a step.

There's not currently any good way to do this. We could look into adding some YouTube API support or maybe forcibly redirect to the mobile site when opening it within Awful?

lelandjs posted:

What are the chances of implementing keyboard shortcuts for us iPad Smart/Bluetooth Keyboard users? I'm thinking:

Whoops, someone requested this on the previous page! I'll leave my suggestions up though:
[snip]

Got 'em, thanks!

Diabolik900 posted:

Thanks! I made a few on Monday night, and thankfully there's no overlap in our efforts.

Pokeyman - it seems like something went wrong with the Github pages setup for the app. I pushed out the new tags on Monday that I mentioned above, and got an email from Github that I'm assuming you got too (maybe a bad assumption) about a page build failure, and the new tags haven't downloaded.

I did not get that email. I think Github changed a bunch of stuff around Github Pages recently (probably since the last time that repo got updated), maybe that explains a few things. I see you got it working though, so who knows.

Regular Nintendo posted:

Additional feature request - any chance there could be a "cache x pages" feature? I ride the subway to work and I'll next-page up a few before going underground and I see the app does somehow persist loaded pages. It'd be handy to be able to quickly download a few pages for offline viewing.

This is a fairly popular request actually, and I wouldn't mind giving it a go. I'd previously been a bit shy about implementing it because I didn't want to hit the servers too hard, but I figure it's no worse than command-clicking a bunch of links quickly to open a bunch of tabs. I'll put it on the list once more!

The Dave posted:

I think my big question would be, does there need to be an extra toggle, or does the sensitivity need to be perfected?

Lord knows I am too much of a kitchen-sink designer, but I try to precede with caution when the solution is "Add another setting".

It definitely needs some tweaking. But since I'm hilariously slow at doing anything useful on this project, if someone adds in a setting in the meantime, I'm inclined to merge it in.

Your Dead Gay Son posted:

A minor dumb thing and maybe deliberate:

If you're making a thread and choose a thread tag (say, "request"), then if you open the list of tags again thinking you'll want to change it to something else and hit cancel, it removes the first selection and leaves you with the poo poo post tag. I'd think canceling it would retain the original selection since you're canceling the dialog and not intentionally clearing it

God. I hope this makes sense

That does make sense, and if it was deliberate then a) it was my fault and b) you've convinced me.


megane posted:

I made a handful of them! Probably the easiest ones but :effort:


Diabolik900 posted:

Ok, whatever happened here must've just been a fluke thing, because I just did it again without issues.


You should see these, and a few more that I made, pop up in the app today or tomorrow (the app looks for new tags only once a day I believe). Still missing some, but much fewer than before.

Thanks y'all!

Grace Baiting
Jul 20, 2012

Audi famam illius;
Cucurrit quaeque
Tetigit destruens.



Abjad Soup posted:

Oh another #DarkModeProblems: some animated emoticons don't properly erase certain frames of the animation in dark mode, e.g.

:roflolmao:

:yikes:

:angel: (the extended wings never fully retract)

:zaeed:

This is not an exhaustive list, but I think all of the problematic examples I've seen share a white background that Awful app converts to dark background in dark mode, and possibly the "stuck" pixels are from a portion of the gif that remains identical over the course of multiple consecutive frames before changing.

Not sure how the dark mode emoticons were/are made so maybe it's just a problem with the initial conversion process, if those gifs are included in the app. But I'm guessing it's some kind of automated process since the zaeed one has black text stays black and illegible in night mode, even when the background is transparentized.

Just FYI the part to ignore in this post is my uninformed "problematic gifs have a white background?? and static portion of image before that spot goes transparent???" speculation -- I don't know what's causing it but the gifs are still problematic with stuck frames in Dark Mode. Another example is :psyboom: (psyboom) where in Dark Mode the head remains unexploded through the entire animation.

Note that the gifs are animated properly in the Image Viewer sheet! But they are animated stuck-ishly when seen directly in a Dark Mode thread.

😇:angel: Thx and G*d bless y'all brave App Warriors :angel:😇

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shitty poker hand
Jun 13, 2013
I'm not really sure what even might be the cause of this problem, but I looked through the last couple posts as best I could, and didn't see anyone else reporting this. So, in short, any time I try to load a thread on my iPhone, the app tells me that I'm in a Starbucks?

It happens whether I'm connected to wifi or 3G, and I've tried restarting my phone. It wouldn't be a problem, but the Starbucks thing is messily interspersed with the first three or four posts on a page, so...? I've tried clicking the Accept & Connect button, or doing anything else with to interact with the Starbucks thing, but none of it actually works. This has been the case for roughly two days.


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